The Telegraph – Nick Collins Analysis of soil from the red planet found that its surface had been dry for such a long time that any life would have to be lurking deep underground. Researchers deduced that there had been water present during a warmer period lasting up to 5,000 years in the distant past, [...]

theblaze.com – Liz Klimas According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, adult stem cells — undifferentiated cells found in every human body that can transform into specialized cells with the medial potential to repair certain areas of the body damaged by disease or injury — fall under its jurisdiction for regulation as a drug. [...]

BBC – Jason Palmer Researchers have demonstrated a striking method to reconstruct words, based on the brain waves of patients thinking of those words. The technique reported in PLoS Biology relies on gathering electrical signals directly from patients’ brains. Based on signals from listening patients, a computer model was used to reconstruct the sounds of words that [...]

San Francisco Chronicle – Victoria Colliver Federal regulators Monday approved the first drug for people with advanced forms of basal cell carcinoma, the most common kind of skin cancer, as well as the most common cancer in general in the United States. The drug, made by South San Francisco’s Genentech, a subsidiary of the Swiss [...]